How do you protect an elite sports team in a pandemic?
I’ve been absolutely itching to share this Fieldwork Facility project for ages...

Rewind to Summer 2020, the entire world is in lockdown and yet some sporting events are beginning to happen again, including the Tour de France. Team Ineos (previously Team Sky and now Ineos Grenadiers) is the world’s greatest professional cycling team with seven Tour de France wins in its twelve-year history.

Fieldwork Facility joined a team of Performance Directors, Hygiene Experts and Behavioural Psychologists, together our challenge was to deliver a team-wide behaviour-change programme with an aim of losing Zero Days to avoidable illness throughout the pandemic and beyond.

Case study now live here.
🚴🏼 ⭕️ 😷

This week we had a really big share on Project Playway and made great progress with Project Centurion too, a little highlight of the week was a highly masked up site visit for Centurion involving thirty meters of rope.

In the (home) studio, we got a little obsessed with obscure Japanese telephone boxes…

Loads more to explore and enjoy here:

https://mogumi.com/telephone-booth/photo_telphone-...
https://denwakyoku.jp/public_telephone.html

We had a good look at Olafur Eliasson’s new major work in Chicago (and briefly imagined in a couple of years time visiting a group exhibition at the Tate where major artists displayed work they made in lockdown… warts and all).

A Tiled Wave Ripples Across Olafur Eliasson’s New Installation in Downtown Chicago

A tip of the hat to the resourcefulness of the Chip Bag project ‘A Detroit Environmental Activist is Turning Chip Bags into Sleeping Bags for the Homeless’

We admired the obsession that led to this book of British Gate typologies being made (click through to see the entire thread)

https://twitter.com/QuintinLake/status/13548728189...

We also came across this insta account of soviet architecture, https://www.instagram.com/northern.friend/

We listened to Alastair Parvin explain how pretty much everything bad in the society can be traced to the history of the history of land system… absolutely fascinating, highly recommended.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cCOuSaJcqwa10jxE...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cCOuSaJcqwa10jxE...

And congratulations to placement Megan Joy Barclay who along with a bunch of friends makes a magazine called 34minus1… Megan is editor and issue 2 was published this week. Check it out here…

http://34minus1.com/

See you next week.

What we can learn from the accidental Robin Hood of mobility startups... and how we could build on the amazing boom in cycling that London is seeing after the lockdown.

Read the new Fieldnotes post over on our Medium.